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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Rushdie note having written for his son?
(a) Shalimar the Clown.
(b) Quichotte.
(c) Luka and the Fire of Life.
(d) Midnight’s Children.

2. What message does Vonnegut’s work assert is encoded in Stonehenge?
(a) “You will be on your way before you know it.”
(b) “Pack up your things and be ready to leave on short notice.”
(c) “Be patient. We haven’t forgotten you.”
(d) “Replacement part being rushed with all possible speed.”

3. Which of the following is Rushdie’s first published novel?
(a) The Antagonist.
(b) Madame Rama.
(c) Grimus.
(d) Midnight’s Children.

4. As which of the following does Rushdie define “amrita”?
(a) Draught of somnolence.
(b) Tincture of eternity.
(c) Elixir of delight.
(d) Nectar of immortality.

5. Of which of the following was Shah Zaman ruler?
(a) Abyssinia.
(b) Kashgar.
(c) Samarkand.
(d) Ethiopia.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which of the following is the anthology dedicated?

2. With which of the following does the first essay in Part Two begin?

3. With which of the following does Rushdie note Roth lived?

4. Which of the following novels does Rushdie reference?

5. In which London neighborhood did Rushdie live while working part-time in advertising?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Rushdie contrast the animal fables of “the Eastern canon” with those represented by Aesop?

2. What does Heraclitus’s fragment 121 say?

3. What, from context, does Rushdie mean by saying “English, I understood, could be chutnified” (91)?

4. What does Rushdie identify as the primary value of the protean in literature?

5. What does Rushdie note was his first attraction to Thousand Nights and One Night?

6. What effect does Rushdie note of Romanian orphans having no access to stories?

7. Why do the deaths of Cervantes and Shakespeare occur on the same date but not the same day?

8. How does Rushdie define childhood in “Heraclitus” (57)?

9. Why does Rushdie note it took him so long to write his second published novel as it did?

10. How does Rushdie report Slaughterhouse-Five presents war?

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